 USS NEW YORK BB-34 |
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Radio Call Sign: November - Alpha - Delta - Tango |
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 | Arriving off New York City to take part in Navy Day celebrations, circa 19 October 1945. |
 | Detail from a panoramic view of the US fleet under review by President Harry S Truman, New York City, 27 October 1945. This segment includes the battleship New York (BB-34) (left) and cruiser Helena (CA-75) (right). |
 | Starboard view, towards stern. Circa late 1945. |
 | View from mast. February, 1946 at New York. New York (BB-34) had arrived there on 19 October. Here she prepared to serve as target ship in operation "Crossroads," the Bikini atomic tests, sailing 4 March 1946 for the West Coast. |
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View from foremast, port side, looking Fwd. February, 1946. |
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View from mast, port side, looking aft. February, 1946. |
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View from foremast, Stb.side, looking aft. February, 1946. |
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View from mainmast, looking Fwd., in Measure 21, Navy Blue and Deck Blue. Note the SC-1 floatplanes and the big SK air search set with SG surface search on a topmast. February, 1946. |
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View from mainmast, looking forward. Feb., 1946. Note the 35-foot motor boat nested inside the 40-foot utility boat, the 26-foot motor whale boat to starboard. |
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N.Y. Navy Yard, 1946. |
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View from mainmast, looking aft., showing the now removed A.A. guns and splinter shields. Only a few life rafts remain reflecting the postwar reduced crew. Feb., 1946. |
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New York (BB-34) starts on her way to the Marshall Islands for atomic bomb tests, 26 January 1946. This photo contains 4 newspaper clippings of the history of the New York from 1945 - 46. |
 | Photo taken on 4 March 1946, while moored off Philadelphia Navy Yard. |
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The Arkansas (BB-33) is in the left hand corner of this photo with other test ships at the Bikini Bomb Test, 1946. I believe the New York (BB-34) is in the center, and the Pennsylvania (BB-38) is to her immediate right. |
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Bikini Bomb Test, 1946. New York (BB-34) is in the center & Pennsylvania (BB-38) is to the right. |
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The underwater test at Bikini shows its power amid the anchored vessels, made bare seconds after its release. |
 | The Fleet Ocean Tug Achomawi (ATF-148) washing down New York (BB-34) at Bikini Atoll in July 1946 after one of the two atomic bomb tests the old battleship endured. |
 | New York (BB-34) is shown here being flushed with an anti-radiation bath after being used as a target at Bikini Atoll. |
 | New York (BB-34) is shown here on 15 August 1946 at Pearl Harbor after she had been towed back from Bikini. Photo taken from the Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) as Sumner was returning from Operation Crossroads. |
 | New York (BB-34) is shown here on 15 August 1946 at Pearl Harbor after she had been towed back from Bikini. Photo taken from the Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) as Sumner was returning from Operation Crossroads. |
 | New York (BB-34) is towed from Pearl Harbor to be sunk as a target, 6 July 1948. Conserver (ARS-39), at left, is the main towing ship, assisted by two harbor tugs on New York's port side. |
 | Too radioactive for scrapping or a memorial in her home state, the ship was sunk as a target on 8, July 1948 off Hawaii. She is shown here bottom up in her final moments. |
 | A guest studies a painting depicting the history of battleships. The artwork was painted by George Skybeck and presented to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association during their annual banquet at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 8 Dec 1991. |
 | Commemorative postal cover on the occasion of New York's (BB-34) 90th anniversary, 15 April 2004. |
